The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1887-08-25

lady, with dignity, IL invite him here "a
q guest. My husbands nephew, Harry
Sanford. is to be here tonight from Bos-
ton; but there is plenty Of room. Harry
shall sleep in the Cedar Chamber. Mr..
Do Note shall have the Red Room.
Where is he nowp ?"
ell think he's having q cigar and
reading the newspaper in the smoke
house," rather guiltily confessed Phoebe.
"Go and call him in," said MIRA Cara
way. "Tell him he shall be welcome" "
And Phoebe obeyed, scarcely able to
believe her own ears.
"She's . deal better than any Fairy
Godmother ever heard Of" thought
| she.
Mr.. De Motto was indeed tall aud
Troubadour-like. He had dark, pensive
eyes, and wore a very handsome satin
necktie; and if his 6nger-nails were not
as clean as Mrs. Garraway liked to see,
! and his ocket-handkerchiefs were not of
! the finest linen, still people thought diff
ferently upon such subjects.
"Harry Sanford looks the most of q
gentleman" thought Mira Garraway.
And even Phoebe, in a mental compar-
ison, could not help owning to herself
that Mr.. Sanford seemed the most at bis
| ease.
"But then," thought Phoebe, "he
hasn't any diplomatic troubles on his
mind. wish, though, that dear Middle
ton wouldn't eat green peas with his fork,
and that he would take little more no.
tice of the chair-covers, and not drag
them off every time he sits down. /
never knew before that he chewed tobac-
co. l Lope it won't make Grand aunt
Garraway nervous!'
But Grand aunt Garrawav smiled her
sweetest, and seemed to notice nothing
amiss.
And Harry Sanford diligently talked
politics, and did his best to amuse the
stranger.
Nevertheless, when Phoebe went to bed
that night, she was not so happy as she
had expected to be.
For diplomat, Mr.. De Motto was not
remarkably intelligent, after all, and she
was very certain that his grammar was
not altogether correct.
She hoped that Harry Sanford had not
observed it.
In the dead of the night, Grand-aunt
Garraway's hand fell softly on Phebe's
shoulder. She started up.
Hush - said the old lady. Don't
utter a sound. Get up. Come down
| stairs with me-"
What is the matter?" gasped the
girl.
"Your fine lover is breaking into my
big cherry wood bureau" said Mrs. Gar
L. l.: 4 L..
| glars tools. But don't look 80 fright
ened, my dear. The jewel-case is there,
but it is empty. Harry Sanford has the
pins and pendants at the county bank.
He's welcome TO all he can find. And
Harry and the farm-laborer have got his
accomplice safely tied outside and
they're ready to seize on him the moment
| he steps across the threshold. But
come want you to see for yonrself!"
And, standing on the staircase, where
she could peep through the transom-light
into the back-parlor, Phoebe beheld her
traubadour-loyer picking locks and .psy-
ing open drawers in most business-like
| manner.
In spite Of her resolution she uttered a
little cry.
Mr.. De Motto looked up and saw her.
| The next instant the room was in dark
ness.
I" But we caught the fellow as neatly
as possible" Mr.. Harry Sanford said,
afterward, with the empty jewel-case in
his possession, and lot Of silver spoons
in his breast-pocket. He's an old hand,
the Albany authorities say. Light
fingered Lemuel,' they call him; and he's
safe to get long term in the peniten-
| tiarv"
Alas, poor Phoebe!
But how did you know he was IA
thief, Aunt Garraway ?" said she.
a didn't know, child" said the old
lady. 81 only suspected that everything
wasn't right. But don't fret. One
doesn't expect young girl like you to
be the best judge of character in the
world. Harry Sanford declared he was
rascal the first moment he set eyes on
him.
"You see" said Harry, he never
looked me straight in the eyes. "That
is an unfailing symptom
And Harry Sanford set himself so dill
gently to work to console the disillusion-
lied maiden that he soon succeeded in re-
storing her tempo, arily eclipsed smiles
So the expedition to Grand aunt Cara
ways proved success, after all. The
Middleton-De Motto engagement was
broken up, and there is every probability
that new one will rise, Phenix-like, out
OF its ashes.
He who makes a child happy re-
ceives and encore from the angels.
Few men ever injured themselves in
their efforts to get away from an Office
that was seeking them.
Strange that man should have been
given two ears and one tongue when, as
everybody knows, he would rather talk
all day than listen five minutes.
Little Dick-"I don't want to do
that" Mamma" But you must"
"Why ?" Because cay So" "What's
the reason have to mind you? 1 amt
your husband"
=" Maud, dear, you know that am
getting a very small salary but would
you be content to live for little while
on bread and cheese and kisses?" Eyes,
darling but YOU know | don't like bread